Sébastien Boisvert

TL;DR: The Pathosystems Resource Integration Center (PATRIC) is the bacterial Bioinformatics Resource Center, which provides services for RNA-Seq, variation, model reconstruction and differential expression analysis, all delivered through an updated private workspace.

TL;DR: The Assemblathon 2 as mentioned in this paper presented a variety of sequence data to be assembled for three vertebrate species (a bird, a fish, and a snake) from 21 participating teams.

TL;DR: The Assemblathon 2 as discussed by the authors presented a variety of sequence data to be assembled for three vertebrate species (a bird, a fish, and a snake) from 21 participating teams.

TL;DR: Voluminous parallel sequencing datasets, especially metagenomic experiments, require distributed computing for de novo assembly and taxonomic profiling, and Ray Meta is a massively distributed metagenome assembler that is coupled with Ray Communities, which profiles microbiomes based on uniquely-colored k-mers.

TL;DR: A parallel short-read assembler, called Ray, is described, which has been developed to assemble reads obtained from a combination of sequencing platforms, and its performance is compared to other assemblers on simulated and real datasets.